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• ‟ Improvisation is an important part of bluegrass, and I would hasten to add that classical music wasn't always such an improvisational void. Back in the day, everyone's cadenzas were improvised, and improvisation was taught in conservatories.

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• ‟ It's like wine and food, or coffee and a pastry - coffee's awesome and a chocolate croissant is awesome, and together, they're transcendent. To me, music is the same way. Chris Stapleton is transcendent. Julien Baker is transcendent. Together, they're going to be euphoria.

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• ‟ There are two genres of music: there's good music and there's bad music.

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• ‟ In my mind, there's this one 'super genre,' which is the only genre that matters, and that's the super genre of good music.

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• ‟ Ever since I became better acquainted with classical music, I've wanted to try my hand at longer forms, but I could never really see my way to it. And after I got divorced, all of a sudden I had a lot of pent-up energy and lots of stuff that had gone into trying to make this failing relationship work that kind of got reapplied.

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• ‟ You need to put yourself in the way of the music that stood the test of time. You're doing yourself an incredible disservice not be interested in the width and breadth of it.

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• ‟ What makes one type of music classical and one bluegrass and one folk - these things aren't what's important.

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• ‟ Really the greatest music I've ever heard I've hated the first time I heard it. It's been abrasive at first; it's been something that challenged me in a way that I wasn't fully comfortable with.

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• ‟ We love music, and when it's good we flip. And we want to get to the core of why it's good.

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• ‟ I can't listen to music while I'm doing something else. Well, unless I'm working out. But I, like, fall off the treadmill all the time if I'm listening to something that I like too much.

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• ‟ My life conforms to music, not the other way around.

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• ‟ I'm always excited about music, but having spent so much time in its pursuit - well, my musical life is complicated.

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• ‟ Bill Monroe is not singing about life in America. He's singing about life in Kentucky and Tennessee. And yet it's had this tremendous impact, not just in America but in the world. Why is Bill Monroe's hyper-regional music so universal? We can be so different and yet still share a tremendous amount.

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• ‟ I just love getting as many experiences making music for and with people as possible.

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